In this conversation, Russ chats to Carla Barker, Head of Marketing at Kodak Alaris. Carla discusses her approach to building collaborative partnerships in business, emphasizing the importance of mutual support and accountability. She also shares her experiences at Kodak Alaris and how her strategies have led to successful partnerships.

In this episode of the Channel Marketing Champs podcast, Mikael Zeitlin discusses the evolution and effective utilization of Marketing Development Funds (MDF) in channel marketing. He emphasizes the importance of proactive strategies from both vendors and partners, the need to balance influence and volume, and the challenges of MDF spending.

In this episode, Russ interviews Emily Smith, who leads partner marketing at WellHub. They discuss the intricacies of partner marketing, the importance of building a robust partner network, and strategies for enabling partner success.

On this episode, Russ is joined by Christin Grenier, VP of Worldwide Channel Marketing at Thales.

Christin has been through somewhat of a unique challenge and journey over the past couple of years. She used to work for Imperva. Imperva were acquired by Thales. And as a result of that, she was tasked with bringing together two massive partner ecosystems into one. And as we'll delve into, that came with a lot of challenges, a lot of headaches, but a lot of value and a lot of benefit that's been delivered up to this point.

On this episode, Andy Grant (Senior Director, Global Channel Marketing at Jamf) dives into the importance of consistency in building strong partnerships. He emphasizes the need to provide partners with an easy path to access content and messaging, which ultimately leads to joint success and growth for both parties.

In this bumper-sized festive episode, Russ is joined by Asher Matthew, CEO and co-founder of Partnership Leaders. They discuss the evolution of Partnership Leaders from a tiny little community into a global behemoth in terms of partner and channel.

They also explore how partnerships are a driver for growth; the rise and development of the Chief Partner Officer role; and what you need to be doing to ensure sales, marketing and partnership alignment to really maximise the value and ROI that you can drive out of your ecosystem.

This time around, Russ is joined by Suraj Atreya, Strategic Ecosystem Marketing Leader EMEA at Rackspace Technology. Amongst the many topics covered, Suraj shares his thoughts on the importance of KPIs for partner marketing; the vital need for alignment, both internally and externally; and some top tips on how you can create mindshare.

Don't call it a comeback! On this first episode of season 2, we're joined by Colleen Smith, who discusses the intricacies of channel and partner marketing, emphasizing the importance of understanding partner requirements and how to empower them for successful sales.

On this episode, Russ chats with Steph Hackney, Channel Marketing Manager at OpenText Cybersecurity. Steph’s got a decade of experience across resellers, distributors, MSPs, and vendors — so when she talks channel, you listen.

On this episode, Russ is joined by industry heavy hitter David van Schaick. David has had a long and storied history both agency and client side in the B2B space, so gets into the weeds around things such as positioning, value props, and how to be meaningfully different to your end audience through your channel and partner marketing.